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A suspect in a case Avon police have been investigating since 1984 has been identified through DNA and he is due in court in Connecticut on Friday.
George Legere, 73, was arrested on May 19 in Springfield, Massachusetts as a fugitive from justice. The warrant was served at the Hampden County Jail and House of Corrections in Massachusetts, according to Avon police. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
He is being charged with three counts of kidnapping in the first degree.
The investigation started on April 13, 1984 when officers responded to Avonwood Road in Avon at 3:58 a.m., where a person was slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle and the horn was going off.
Police arrested a 73-year-old man in a Massachusetts county jail, charging him with three counts of kidnapping. Author: Rick Lessard (FOX61) Updated: 10:26 PM EDT May 27, 2021
AVON, Conn. A 37-year-old cold case from Avon was solved after DNA found at the scene all those years ago recently matched that of a man already in jail on a different case.
Police arrested 73-year-old George Legere while he was in Hampden (MA) County Jail and House of Correction. He was charged with three counts of kidnapping in the first degree stemming from a case in the 1980s.
Back in 1984, police responded to Avonwood Road in Avon after a report of a person slumped over onto the steering wheel setting off the horn.
County jails vaccinate some staff, inmates next in line
Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Hampshire County Sheriff Patrick Cahillane talks about measures to reduce exposure to the new coronavirus at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction on Thursday, March 12, 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
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A Wartime Ph.D. by Judith Kelliher (Jance Beetle Books/Off the Common Books)
In 1969, Bobby Kelliher was in his early 20s when he shipped out to Vietnam to begin his first tour of duty as an infantryman in the Vietnam War. And like a lot of people who served in that conflict, Kelliher, who grew up in a working class family in Springfield, came back to the U.S. with considerable emotional and psychological scars.
In “A Wartime Ph.D.,” East Longmeadow writer Judith Kelliher sets out to document her older brother’s story, one that had always been a mystery to her. As she explains in an introduction to her book, Kelliher was only 8 years old when Bobby went off to war, doing two tours in Vietnam from 1969 into 1970, and he never talked about his experience to anyone in the family.